Don't sleep on the Coinbase Smart Wallet

By integrating Smart Wallet, Privy is enabling developers to dramatically reduce friction and improve the experience for their users - potentially catalyzing the next major wave of onchain adoption

If you weren't sure what was so special about the Smart Wallet, check this out 👇

Step change improvement in Onchain UX

It’s Sunday so of course Jesse Pollak (jesse.xyz) 🛡️ and I are jamming on more ways to supercharge Base 🛡️ with Coinbase 🛡️ and Coinbase Wallet 🛡️

Lightning support on Coinbase 🛡️, enabling 10x faster and cheaper global #Bitcoin transactions 🔜

The world is moving onchain, get onboard

You can also (1) buy ETH directly on Base in Wallet or (2) send ETH from Coinbase to your wallet on Base

Both with no gas fees to bridge since CB handles the cross-chain liquidity behind the scenes

Cheapest, safest, and fastest ways to go from Fiat to Based in under 10 seconds

Coinbase has invested for 10+ years in enabling fiat-to-crypto money movement that makes it free, instant, and safe for anyone to get crypto

For the last 2+ years, we've also been investing heavily in cross-chain money movement w/ faster settlement and lower fees, so that too

It's unusual for the courts to dismiss a case brought by the SEC at this stage

For them to dismiss the claims against Coinbase Wallet and reaffirm that self-custody wallets should be regulated as pure software providors is a huge win for the industry

This decision protects

Game changer for onchain app UX:

- No need to sign transactions w/ clunky extension or app-switching
- No need for gas tokens, bridging, etc.
- You own your identity and assets, anywhere you go

A smarter wallet, that reduces friction and supercharges onchain app experiences

Excited for the Coinbase 🛡️ partnership with Yellow Card App across 20 African countries. This will usher in the future of money by giving millions of African users access to USDC and fast, reliable, cheaper transactions.

A timeless message and healthy inspiration to build great new things in the year ahead:

'Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was

Need a last-minute Christmas gift?

Give crypto to friends and family who don’t have it yet!

With Coinbase Wallet 🛡️, you can send crypto to a phone number or email via a smart contract that holds it until the recipient creates a wallet to accept it, and returns it if they don’t ✨

Bonjour la France. 🇫🇷

We’ve received approval in France as a registered VASP. This is an important market for us and represents another chapter in our Go Deep, Go Broad international strategy.

Learn more: coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-…

Great to see rapid innovation and growth in markets that have created clear regulatory frameworks for crypto!

Just the beginning of what we hope to bring to Singapore and other markets around the world 🌐

Still lots of work to do, but nice to see the progress on overall product quality from a year ago.

And we’re always looking for ways to make our products even easier-to-use and more intuitive. Please share feedback if you have ideas!